The truth, though, is that present efforts remain sluggish and inadequate.

Yet simply upgrading present efforts is not enough.

-I'll forgive what you did to me in view of your present effort to save us.

His present effort, with a $9 billion-a-year business, could be far more expensive.

Should the conservation department succeed in its present efforts, the park would include 4,500 acres.

The process can be confounded by clouds - clearly the case in the Pentagon's present efforts.

His present efforts are directed as a Buddhist towards achieving final liberation.

The present effort could only mean the cannon would be important in the attack.

I want in particular to discuss our present efforts for arms reduction -efforts that may soon be yielding historic results.

It would be nice simply to laud the Bach Choir's efforts, present and past.